different between doit vs dolt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??t/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German doyt, cognate with Middle Dutch duit. Doublet of thwaite.

Noun

doit (plural doits)

1. (historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
   • c. 1606, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 12:

     most monster-like, be shown / For poor'st diminutives, for doits;
2. (archaic) A small amount; a bit, a jot.
   • 1819, — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

     “Speak out, ye Saxon dogs — what bid ye for your worthless lives? — How say you, you of Rotherwood?” “Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba.

   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

     When / they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they / will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.

3. (music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
   • 1995, Music & Computers (volume 1, issues 2-4, page 57)

     Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots doit, apparently a Scots cognate of dote.

Verb

doit (third-person singular simple present doits, present participle doiting, simple past and past participle doited)

1. (Scotland, rare) To stumble; to blunder.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     I trembled with astonishment; and on my return from the small window went doiting in amongst the weaver's looms, tillI entangled myself, and could not get out again without working great deray amongst the coarse linen threads that stood in warp from one end of the apartment unto the other.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dwa/
• Homophones: doigt, doigts, dois, doua, douas, douât

Verb

doit

1. third-person singular present indicative of devoir: must, has to

Old French

Alternative forms

• dei
• deit
• doi

Etymology

From Latin digitus.

Noun

doit m (oblique plural doiz or doitz, nominative singular doiz or doitz, nominative plural doit)

1. finger (appendage)

Descendants

• Angevin: daigt
• Lorrain: dogt
• Middle French: doigt
  • French: doigt
    • Haitian Creole: dwèt
• Norman: deigt, dé
• Picard: doét
• Walloon: doet

Welsh

Alternative forms

• delet (colloquial)
• deuit (literary)
• deuet (literary)
• doet (colloquial)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?i?t/

Verb

doit

1. (literary) second-person singular imperfect/conditional of dod

Mutation

English

Etymology

First used as a noun in Early Modern English, from dialectal English dold (“stupid, confused”), from Middle English dold, a variant of dulled, dult (“dulled”), past participle of dullen, dollen (“to make dull, make stupid”), from dull, dul, dwal (“stupid”). More at dull.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?lt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??lt/, /d??lt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /do?lt/
• Rhymes: -??lt

Noun

dolt (plural dolts)

1. (derogatory) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
   • c. 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice

     O gull! O dolt! As ignorant as dirt!

   • 1627, Michael Drayton, Nimphidia, the Court of Faery

     This Puck seemes but a dreaming dolt.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fool

Derived terms

• doltery
• doltish

Translations

Verb

dolt (third-person singular simple present dolts, present participle dolting, simple past and past participle dolted)

1. (obsolete) To behave foolishly.

Anagrams

• told

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Verb

dolt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of dollen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of dollen

Manx

Verb

dolt (verbal noun doltey, past participle doltit)

1. to adopt, foster, initiate

Synonyms

• (to foster): doltaghey

Swedish

Adjective

dolt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of dold.

Verb

dolt

1. supine of dölja.